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Early American History
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Civil War / Reconstruction
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The Gilded Age
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The Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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World War I
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Roaring Twenties
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The Great Depression
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World War II
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The United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
- Containment: resisting further expansion of communism around the world
- Arms Race / Space Race: the competition between the US and the Soviet Union in result to gain supremacy
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
- Communism: A system of government where all property is public and people work and are given things by the government
- Domino Theory: the theory that a political event will cause others in neighboring countries
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Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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The Korean War
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Sweatt v. Painter
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal” -
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Civil Rights Era
- Great Society: program launched by President LBJ that fought against poverty and racial injustice
- Thurgood Marshall: civil rights activist and the Court's first African American justice
- Black Panthers: political organization that fought against police brutality towards black people
- Non Violent Protests/Civil Disobedience: nonviolent actions made in order to refuse certain laws or demands made by a government
- Cesar Chavez: civil rights activist and Mexican American labor leader
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Rosenbergs Trail
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation -
Hernandez v. Texas
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
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Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
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Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
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John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
24th Amendment
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
Eliminated literacy tests for voters -
Tet Offensive
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Martin Luther King is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing -
Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University shooting
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End of the Cold War
- OPEC: intergovernmental organization that takes care of oil markets
- Sandra Day O'Connor: the first woman associate justice of the Supreme Court of the US
- Community Reinvestment Act of 1977: requires federal banking regulators to encourage financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of communities
- AIDS epidemic: a deadly virus that took over the US and killed many individuals
- Star Wars: missile defense system that intended to protect the US from attack by nuclear weapons
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
Title IX
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs -
War Powers Act
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval -
Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990's - 21st Century